Oh, Goro Taniguchi. You may be one of the current anime industry s top directors, with excellent shows like Planetes, Maria the Virgin Witch, and Code Geass to your name, but you really flubbed it this time.
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Interview: Skate-Leading Stars Directors Goro Taniguchi and Riki Fukushima
by Kim Morrissy,
Mar 17th 2021
Skate-Leading Stars tells a drama about a fictional sport called “Skate-Leading”, which is a team competition of figure skating. ANN spoke to chief director
Riki Fukushima regarding how this anime came to be and how they created the sports and drama.
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(For
Goro Taniguchi) How did this project first get started? What inspired you to make an anime about figure skating?
The producer from
Bandai Namco Arts approached me to consult with the idea “Why don t you make an anime about figure skating?”, and that s where the project started.